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It appears from this table that the four States with the
largest Jewries (the United States, Poland, Russia, and
Roumania) have a joint Jewish population of 11,200,0005
making about 70 per cent of world-Jewry.

(3) PERCENTAGE OF JEWS IN THE TOTAL POPULATION
In East European countries and Palestine the Jews form
between 5 and 17 per cent of the population; in most coun-
tries of Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Near East,
and further, in the United States, the Argentine, Canada,
and South Africa, they form between 1 and 5 per cent; in
Western and Northern Europe, and in other overseas coun-
tries, their proportion falls below 1 per cent; and there are.
practically no Jews in Central Asia, India, the Far East, and
in the interior of Africa.
Within single countries the percentage of Jews varies
considerably. In the Union of Soviet Republics the Jews
form 8-2 per cent in White Russia, 5-4 in the Ukraine,
0-6 in Central, and 0-8 per cent in Asiatic Russia. In
the Ukraine itself the percentage varies as between dif-
ferent districts from 0-2 to 19-7 (in Odessa). The Jews are
most numerous in parts comprising big towns and in-
dustrial areas, and least numerous in the purely agrarian
districts.
In Poland the percentage of Jews is highest in late Russian
Poland (14*2) and lowest in the late Prussian provinces of
Posnania and West Prussia (D-5 and 0-3). The largest part
of the original Jewish population of those provinces had
emigrated by 1919, and so far comparatively few Jews have
entered them from other parts of Poland.
In the United States, 9 out of the 49 States of the Union
comprised in 1927 83-5 per cent of the Jewish population—
3,532,000 out of a total of 4,228,000; these were the States of
the Northern and Central Atlantic sea-board (New York,